First Speech

What's the matter, Atrus. Can't remember how things work? Yet you explained this class so well when we first spoke of it in Narayan. I want Sirrus and Achenar to learn everything they can, Saavedro. First from Amateria, Edanna, Voltaic, and finally from Narayan. When my boys come to see your people, I want them to see Narayan's traditions at work, so they can see how a civilization can balance an Age. Do you know what they did when they finally came to us? You never came back. After class was over, you took your boys away, and you never came back. Sirrus and Achenar did.

Second Speech

Twenty years, Atrus. Twenty long years alone. They tied me to a post. They burned their Myst linking books in front of me. They took everything I had. My wife. My two baby girls. And then, when I finally made it back to Narayan and I saw... I sss... It would have been better if I had died.

Third Speech

This morning I woke up and I couldn't picture Tamra's face. Little line at the corner of her lip that pulls her whole mouth down when she smiles, the flutter in her eye lashes. I tried so hard to picture her in my mind. Put her down on paper as if that might bring her back. I couldn't do it. Atrus, I'm not you.

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